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Something for truckers to remember: <br />Without trains in the current guage, supplies wouldn't be able to be transported fast enough for early autos and trucks to be constructed. The current width not only allows for slimmer trains, costing less to make bridges and cuts, and allow multiple trains to run in the same space as Main street, taking more cargo at once under a certain amount of power, at the same (or higher) speed, longer distances than a line of trucks on the highway! <br /> <br />Also think about this: in less space, you can build a one track ROW, that can take trains in either direction with up to and over 100 carloads of freight (With the help of good signaling and a dispatcher), while in a much wider space, you need more supplies and space to built a 1 lane road that can take one truck at a time in one direction per side. <br /> <br />Also think about the fact that it is eisier for a trucker to make a mistake and flip the truck, than for an engineer to screw up and wreck the train, because the train can't be swerved, just put into emergency, and if the train does derail, half the cargo is spilled than what would be wasted in a wider guage train. <br /> <br />And yes, it would cost a lot, not only because of the expanding of the rails, but also the replacement of the hundreds of thousands (Or millions, not sure) of pieces of rolling stock! <br /> <br />Just my views on the rail/trucking & wider rail topics!
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